**A film proving that one man can talk for 82 minutes on film and be completely tranfixing. An excellent film/monologue whose use of subtle lighting and sound effects is brilliant. Astounding.

The Untouchables

Wings Of Desire

Very Good

Bagdad Cafe

Barfly

The Big Easy

Cop

Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam

Full Metal Jacket

The Glass Menagerie (TV)

Hellraiser

High Tide

Hope And Glory

House Of Games

A Hungarian Fairy Tale

**A woman and a man fall in love at first sight, in the midst of a romantic opera. He follows her to a café and they consummate their love in a night of passion. She has a child from this one night stand and decides not to mention who his father was on the birth certificate. As it happens, if you don’t list the father on the certificate, when the child reaches the age of three a fake name must be used. Years later the mother is killed in a freak accident leaving the boy in the awaiting hands of the state. He escapes and goes in search of his father. As our young hero continues his search the movie becomes more bizarre. The imagination of the filmmakers is tempered with a sense of realism that never detracts from the entertainment. A joy for life is evident in every aspect of A Hungarian Fairy Tale with novel plot twists and a knack for making the characters and scene giddy with possibility. The mind simply boggles as the young man journeys toward a father who doesn’t exist. The fantastical ending was probably the only off note of the entire film. I was so enjoying the mixture of fantasy and pragmatism such flights of fancy were unwelcome. Yet there was enough great filmmaking here to warrant significant praise…and you might even enjoy the ending more than I did.

The Last Emperor

Matewan

Near Dark

Prick Up Your Ears

Radio Days

Robocop

Sherlock Holmes: The Sign Of Four (TV)

The Stepfather

Wish You Were Here

The Witches Of Eastwick

Good

Angel Heart

A Better Tomorrow II

Cry Freedom

Empire Of The Sun

The Hidden

I've Heard The Mermaids Singing

La Bamba

The Living Daylights

THe Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains

No Way Out

Pelle The Conqueror

Planes, Trains And Automobiles

Predator

Some Kind Of Wonderful

Someone To Watch Over Me

The Whales Of August

The Year My Voice Broke

Guilty Pleasures

Black Widow

Burglar

Dirty Dancing

Ernest Goes To Camp

The Lost Boys

Mannequin

Masters Of The Universe

Munchies

A Prayer For The Dying

Spaceballs

Summer School

Surf Nazis Must Die

Average

*batteries not included

Baby Boom

The Belly Of An Architect

Beverly Hills Cop 2

Can't Buy Me Love

The Chipmunk Adventure

City On Fire

Creepshow 2

Dead Of Night

Deadline

Extreme Prejudice

The Fourth Protocol

Foxfire

Gardens Of Stone

The Gate

Going Home

Good Morning, Vietnam

Harry And The Hendersons

Hiding Out

Hot Pursuit

The Howling 3

Ishtar

Light Of Day

Living On Tokyo Time

THe Lonely Passion Of Jutith Hearne

Maid To Order

Making Mr. Right

Maurice

The Monster Squad

A Month In The Country

A Nightmare On Elm Street 3

Nights In White Satin

Nowhere To Hide

Nuts

Orphans

Overboard

Prince Of Darkness

The Principal

Project X

Rampage

Real Men

Siesta

Suspect

Three Men And A Baby

Throw Mama From The Train

Wall Street

Wanted: Dead Or Alive

Weeds

When The Wind Blows

Dissapointing

Adventures In Babysitting

Aria

The Bedroom Window

Best Seller

Big Shots

China Girl

The Curse

Dolls

Fatal Attraction

Gor

Hamburger Hill

Heat

House II: The Second Story

I Was A Teenage Zombie

If Looks Could Kill

In The Mood

Innerspace

Ironweed

It's Alive 3

The Killing Time

Less Than Zero

Like Father, Like Son

Lionheart

My Demon Lover

Outrageous Fortune

Overkill

Police Academy 4

The Secret Of My Success

The Squeeze

Star Quest

Stormquest

Street Justice

Street Smart

Surrender

Survival Game

Survivor

Three For The Road

White Wash Summer

Young Nurses In Love

Cellar Dwellers

Allan Quartermain And Lost City Of Gold

American Gothic

The Barbarians

Benji: The Hunted

Blindside

Blood Sisters

BLue Monkey

Born In East L.A.

Creepazoids

Crimewave

Critical Condition

Cross My Heart

Cyclone

Demon Warrior

Demons 2

Deranged

Desperado

Dragnet

Fire And Ice

Flowers In The Attic

From The Hip

Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2

The Highwayman

Jaws: The Revenge

Nightforce

No Man's Land

The Offspring

Rags To Riches

Return To Salem's Lot

Revenge Of The Nerds II

The Running Man

Russkies

Scared Stiff

Shallow Grave

The Sicilian

Slumber Party Massacre II

Steele Justice

Teen Wolf Too

Wild Thing

Wisdom

Witchboard

The Big Stink

American Ninja 2

Blind Date

Blood Hook

The Danger Zone

Death Stalker 2

Dudes

Fatal Beauty

Leonard Part 6

Rawhead Rex

Redneck Zombies

Silent Night, Deadly Night 2

Slaughterhouse

**Silly, dumb, irritating horror flick about a pig farmer + obtuse (read leatherface) son’s revenge on uncaring townsfolk makes for some of the dumbest cinema in recent memory. The case has a warning about the powerful gore that is suitable for people 18 and over is located in this film makes a great case of false advertising. If they had put a warning about powerful stupidity being located here that would be closer to the truth. Watch at your own risk.

Quote all you want, I've been doing it for years to the chagrin of many a friend. Other than "Ben" that is, since he can recite practically the whole film.

Am I mistaken or do you have mucho love for John Hughes? <---that's supposed to be a question but it's not. So I stuck a freakin' question mark at the end of it. Hooya.

You mean Heat...from 1995? Not Heat...Burt Reynolds stars as the bitter bodyguard and degenerate gambler Mex in this uneven action film. He wakes up hungover, vowing to rekindle his dream of leaving Las Vegas for good if he can just raise enough money. Mex divides his time working for the low-key millionaire Cyrus Kinnick (Peter MacNicol) at the casino and moonlighting as a paid enforcer. When Mex's pretty neighbor Holly (Karen Young) is attacked by a quartet of perverted thugs, Mex goes after gang leader Danny DeMarco (Neill Barry) and company. The feature was continually plagued by production problems, with three uncredited directors employed in addition to R.M. Richards. — Dan Pavlides <---reveiw from AMG. right?

Nobody said a thing about Roxanne am I right in supposing that there's a lot of love for the Steve Martin comedy? <---does it again. Hooya 2.

I was actually going to put "Raising Arizona" lower but then I thought: "How many scenes do you love, the seduction by mug shots scenes, the entire romance going sour sequence, the scene with the diapers, the escape of the two convicts..." and on and on. About 10 to be precise, now how could I put such a film in the good section.

Well, "ridiculous" was not my end-all criticism of the plotline. However, I'd have to watch the movie again to come up with a more coherent review, as it has been a while (I think it was one of the first films I watched on my quest to see the AFI's 100 funniest movies). I didn't remember the tattoo at all, or some of the other details about that subplot. I just remembered thinking it was stupid.